Cherry Tree railway station

Cherry Tree
National Rail
General information
LocationCherry Tree, Blackburn with Darwen
England
Grid referenceSD658264
Managed byNorthern
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeCYT
ClassificationDfT category F2
History
OpenedNovember 1847[1]
Passengers
2018/19Decrease 29,634
2019/20Increase 41,128
2020/21Decrease 11,130
2021/22Increase 34,498
2022/23Decrease 32,612
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Cherry Tree railway station serves Cherry Tree in the Blackburn with Darwen borough of Lancashire, England. The station is 1.9 miles (3 km) southwest of Blackburn railway station. It is managed by Northern, who also provide all the passenger services calling there.

The station is a two platform stop situated on the A674 road for Blackburn and was opened soon after the Blackburn to Preston line, in 1847. The former Lancashire Union Railway branch line to Chorley, Wigan and St Helens Shaw Street (opened in 1869) diverged a short distance to the west of the station, but this closed to passengers on 4 January 1960 and completely in 1966.[2]

The station is unstaffed, and all of its permanent buildings except shelters on both platforms were demolished. Only the western end of each platform is now used, with the sections east of the bridge on both sides now derelict. A Community Rail Lancashire and local authority-sponsored cleanup and repair project was carried out by local schoolchildren, college students, volunteers and council workers in 2014.[3] The station has a long-line PA system and digital information screens in place to provide train running information. It also has full step-free access to both platforms for disabled passengers.[4]

In January 2018 new touchscreen ticket machines were installed in stations on this line, including Cherry Tree.

  1. ^ Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
  2. ^ Marshall, J (1981) Forgotten Railways: North-West England, David & Charles (Publishers) Ltd, Newton Abbott. ISBN 0-7153-8003-6; p.155
  3. ^ "Cherry Tree Station Blossoms as Communities Unite" Clough, Dan Lancashire Telegraph article 17 November 2014; Retrieved 21 November 2016
  4. ^ Cherry Tree station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 25 November 2016